South Korea: egg production with a “zero approach”
With 1.2 million layers and 400,000 pullets, GaNong Bio operates South Korea’s largest egg production farm at its location in Pocheon, including the country’s only underground fresh egg transfer system. One factor for the company’s success with the eight barns is the poultry equipment from Big Dutchman: the German equipment supplier has been supporting the egg producer for more than 20 years.
GaNong Bio has exacting requirements, as reflected by their zero approach:
- zero risk ⇒ protect the birds from external contamination;
- zero disease ⇒ guarantee perfect bird health;
- zero contact ⇒ automate all production processes to prevent contact with the eggs;
- zero error ⇒ implement very demanding production standards 24/7;
- zero days ⇒ deliver the eggs on the day they were laid.
The video linked here shows how the strategy is implemented in everyday life, including impressive images from the farm.
amacs
To ensure that central production and climate processes run smoothly, Ganong Bio opted for the management and control system amacs. Big Dutchman developed the hardware and software solution specifically to increase the efficiency on egg production farms. amacs controls and monitors all houses of a farm – at one location, through the internet, but also for multiple locations – and manages all parts of a farm, from egg collection to feed and water supply and even manure drying.
Advantages (a selection):
- all information available at a glance ⇒ the current state of all barns is displayed on the start screen;
- real-time visualisation;
- central data storage ⇒ analysis and graphical illustration of all production data;
- alarm messages and message history.